Big Love, which spurred a lot of pre-emptive worry in the Mormon church before it premiered, is now being criticized for a scene in Sunday's episode that depicts a certain sacred church ritual, apparently for the first time on TV. HBO, in response, has issued one of those I'm-sorry-if-you-feel-that-...

The format of the fancy-schmancy American Idol review gallery doesn't really lend itself well to writing a wrap-up of the show, so I thought I'd put up a separate post for your (and my) predictions for tonight's dual elimination. But first: what are your predictions for the promised world-shattering...

At what point are Viacom and General Electric going to sit down with someone from The Daily Show and CNBC, respectively, and ask them to stop giving the competition such awesome cross-promotion? You probably know the chronology: first Jon Stewart aired a scathing takedown of bad financial advice fro...

Before you read this post, check that your office safe is securely locked, then watch last night's Big Love:  If there's a consensus emerging about last night's Big Love—well, from the handful of conversations I've had about it so far—it is: How awesome that Nicki finally got exposed! And is it...

Since I posted on the season 2 debut of Breaking Bad Friday, feel free to use this post to discuss it. Also, this is as good a time as any to discuss a crisis affecting Tuned In: There is just too damn much good TV on the weekends for me to blog it all, without hiring either a personal assistant or ...

Sci Fi Spoilers for Friday's episode of Battlestar Galactica coming up after the jump:  As Battlestar Galactica was getting ready to return for its last season, I remember wondering whether it would seem as relevant to the times as it did when it debuted—in the middle of the war in Iraq, with the...

Chris Cuffaro / FOX Quick spoilers for American Idol coming up after the jump: Because there is just so much incredible talent on season 8 of American Idol, the producers are going with 13, count 'em 13, finalists this year. Last night's wild cards included Megan and Jasmine (as I predicted) and (as...

Michael Becker / Fox Spoilers for American Idol coming up after the jump: Lil, Scott and Jorge. No surprises. Let's move on.  So last night the judges named eight wildcards, who tonight will sing for their lives as the judges choose three to spare from expulsion. A good performance tonight is their...

NBC The credits of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, appropriately enough for a show produced by Lorne Michaels and starring an SNL alum, look and sound an awful lot like an SNL credits sequence. The difference: they feature just one guy, Fallon, and he is running, furiously, as hard as he can, as if he...

Spoilers for last night's Big Love coming up after the jump: Let us all now mourn Kathy Marquart. If her death was not entirely a surprise—you could see Something Very Bad Happening once she had her bonding moment with Wanda and went off to pick flowers, like a teen parking on Inspiration Point in...